Lakers News: Rob Pelinka Sitting With Top Buyout Target At Pelicans Game

As Los Angeles Lakers center Anthony Davis' current club wallops the visiting New Orleans Pelicans, the team that drafted him first overall in 2012, LA team president was putting the recruiting moves on probably the top free agent prospect on the buyout market.

ESPN's Dave McMenamin snapped a candid shot of Pelinka sitting next to point guard Spencer Dinwiddie and his agent, Jason Glushon.

Spencer Dinwiddie is at the game with Rob Pelinka, taking in Lakers-Pelicans, along with his agent Jason Glushon pic.twitter.com/Uy8tBi1ANo
— Dave McMenamin (@mcten) February 10, 2024

Dinwiddie was recently waived by the Toronto Raptors after being shipped there in a deal with the Brooklyn Nets.

The contest's local Spectrum SportsNet broadcast also captured the duo sitting in on the action midway through the contest's second quarter.

Spencer Dinwiddie and Rob Pelinka. 👀

(h/t @ohnohedidnt24) pic.twitter.com/tvMTtc2JXa
— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) February 10, 2024

Elsewhere on press row, The Athletic's Jovan Buha also caught a glimpse of the duo hanging out mid-game.

Spencer Dinwiddie at Lakers-Pelicans and is sitting with Rob Pelinka in the Lakers’ VIP seats. pic.twitter.com/aBEfIxYVOd
— Jovan Buha (@jovanbuha) February 10, 2024

The 6'5" Colorado product is an LA native. He attended Taft High School in Woodland Hills.

It's pretty remarkable that a guy who started all 48 of his team's games this season is now just on the open market. The Lakers have been looking for point guard help, with reserve Gabe Vincent barely available all year. While with Brooklyn, Dinwiddie averaged 12.6 points on .391/.320/.781 shooting splits, six assists, 3.3 rebounds.

At halftime in an unbelievably high-scoring game, the Lakers lead the Pelicans by double digits, 87-74. The Lakers are connecting on an insane 67.4% of their 43 field goal tries and 55% of their 20 triples, along with 85.7% of their 21 foul attempts.

Happy to be finishing his season a Laker, D'Angelo Russell is leading the way for LA with 21 points on 6-of-10 shooting from the field (4-of-7 from deep) and 5-of-5 from the foul line. Davis has 12 points and four boards. Every Lakers starter is already in double digits.

The 87-point tally represents LA's highest-scoring half of the year to date. It's actually the Lakers' second-highest-scoring half in franchise history, according to Spectrum SportsNet. The most was an 89-point first half the peak Showtime-era Lakers dropped on the Phoenix Suns on January 2nd, 1987.

For what it's worth, that team went on to win its 10th title that spring...